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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: What should be added to C
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Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 14:20:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  5 14:20:20 1986
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In article <774@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@ucbopal.UUCP (Mike Meyer) writes:
>The thing about F77 (and FIV vs FII) is that most of the features in
>the F77 standard had already been implemented - or at least something
>similar to them - in most compilers already.

This is not true.  The biggest change was the IF (...) THEN ... ENDIF
construct.  I don't know of *any* compiler which supported this before the
standard came out; certainly it was not common.  This change was completely
upward compatible; but so are my proposed changes.  (Well, not completely so
in all cases, but almost.  Some of them reserve new keywords.)

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108